Egg-beater



M. G. CRANE. EGG BEATER.

Nd. 48,525. Patented July 4, 1865.

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MOSES Gr. ORANE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

EGGe-BEATER' Specification forming part ofLettcrs Patent No. 48,525, dated July 4, 1865; antedated June 27., 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MosEs G. QRANE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Egg-Beater; and I do hereby declare the same tobe fully described in the following specifi cation and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a

vertical section, of an egg beater constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig.3 is a side view of the sectoral gear, to be hereinafter described.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with the rotary shaft or spindle of the egg-beater certain 1nechanisn'i- 'iz., two pinions and a sectoral gear-which, when put in operation, as hereinafter set forth, will cause the said beater to be rapidly rotated in opposite directions alternately, whereby not only wilt the albumen and-yelks of the eggs be quicklyreduced to a homogeneous'mass, but the tendency of such mass to overflow while being as: I similated or broken up and commingled will be most effectively prevented.

In the said drawings, A denotes a rod or i spindle whose journals 1) bare supported in bearings c 0 made through the frame E, or through ears d d projecting therefrom. On the upper end of the said spindle a pinion, B, isaffixed, the lower face of its hub' resting on the upper surface of the said frame E. B

V is another pinion orcogwheel having the same diameter and a like number of teeth or cogs as the said pinion B, such pinion B being firmly secured to the said spindle, and having the upper face of its hub. resting against the lower face of the frame E, as shown in. Figs. 1 and 2. The said frame E consists of a curved metallic plate having cars at d projecting from its opposite ends and at right angles thereto,

as seen in Fig. 1. .It also has a slot or handpassage, H, made longitudinally through it, the outer curved portion, I,of such frame E being formed as a handle, by which the beater may be held in its proper position. Furthermore,

.of repair.

between the outer faces of' the pinions B and B, so that when the said gear is put in revolutionthe teeth f f, 860., thereof shall engage alternately with the teeth 0 o of each of the pinions' B B during each revolution of said gear. L is a crank or handle aflixed to the gear 0, and by which the said mechanism may be put ill-operation.

a a, &c., are a series of curved wires, which are soldered or otherwise properly connected to the lower half of the spindle A, in manner as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This series of wires I term the egg-beater, as they are the .imme.

diate agents employediu heating up the eggs. For the purpose of supporting the egg-beater in a proper position within the vessel in which the eggs are to be beaten,'1 arrange on the lower end of the spindle A a pedestal or disk, G,which maybe of a concave-convex or other :desired' shape, such spindlc' being pivoted to such disk, and'so as to be capable of being freely rotated therein.

From my peculiar combination and-arrangement of the two piuions B B and the sectoral gear-U the teeth of the said gear are cansed,

during one-half, or nearly one-half, of its revolnion, to engage with the teeth of one of. the

said pinions, while during nearly its other halfrevolution its teeth engage with the teeth of the other of the said pinions, and as the two pinious are attached to one shaft or spindle at points diametrically opposite to the pathof revolutionof said gear, the said'spindle, and consequentlythe egg-beater, will be caused to revolvein opposite directions alternately during each revolution of the said gear.

A machine constructed in myimproved manner is not only simple in construction and effective in. operation, but notliable to get out Having described the construction and operation of myinvention, what 1 claim is as follows: \i

The combination of the rotary spindle A, the

series of curved wires or arms a a. a, 860., the

pinions B andB, and the sectoral gear 0, the same being arranged so as to operate together, substantially as described.

MosEs G, CRANE.

Witnesses F. P. HALE, Jr., G. H. WASHBURN. 

